Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

256 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender history sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhoodIn an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who...

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